{"product_id":"making-race-in-the-courtroom-9780814724316","title":"Making Race in the Courtroom","description":"\u003cp\u003eNo American city’s history better illustrates both the\u003cbr\u003epossibilities for alternative racial models and the role of the law in shaping\u003cbr\u003eracial identity than New Orleans, Louisiana, which prior to the Civil War was\u003cbr\u003ehome to America’s most privileged community of people of African descent. In\u003cbr\u003ethe eyes of the law, New Orleans’s free people of color did not belong to the\u003cbr\u003esame race as enslaved Africans and African-Americans. While slaves were\u003cbr\u003e“negroes,” free people of color were gens\u003cbr\u003ede couleur libre, creoles of color, or simply creoles. New Orleans’s\u003cbr\u003ecreoles of color remained legally and culturally distinct from “negroes”\u003cbr\u003ethroughout most of the nineteenth century until state mandated segregation\u003cbr\u003elumped together descendants of slaves with descendants of free people of color.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMuch of the recent scholarship on New\u003cbr\u003eOrleans examines what race relations in the\u003cbr\u003eantebellum period looked as well as why antebellum Louisiana’s gens de couleur enjoyed rights and\u003cbr\u003eprivileges denied to free blacks throughout most of the United States. This book, however, is less concerned with the what and why questions than with how people\u003cbr\u003eof color, acting within institutions of power, shaped those institutions in ways beyond\u003cbr\u003etheir control. As its title suggests, Making Race in the Courtroom argues that race is best understood not\u003cbr\u003eas a category, but as a process. It seeks to demonstrate the role of\u003cbr\u003efree people of African-descent, interacting within the courts, in this process.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kenneth R. Aslakson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48274201673979,"sku":"9780814724316","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_73766611-bcbc-47b6-81f1-394a2eb4bbcd.jpg?v=1771034457","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/making-race-in-the-courtroom-9780814724316","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}